History forum games

>History forum games
The highest Level of autism.
I wonder what the people who play this look like.

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>>585795
>I wonder what the people who play this look like.

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>>Experience the excitement of being a notable person in 1930s Albania

>>585795
I played forum games once, I was a girly 12 year old.
Granted it was fantasy based, not history based.

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>French Revolution
aka "kill every other player" simulator

>>586333

Feminism's Creed 4

>>586333
The French Revolution is pretty bizarre. Like if you read polemics from back then it's some variation of "We must defend rule by the people, justice, and a well-ordered government" followed by justifications for killing 20-30 people.

>>586370
that's because france had no history of representative government or a rule of law that wasn't an exercise in arbitrariness by the nobility

american frontier had no nobility and was able to establish its own customs for a hundred years and so its revolution came out a lot better

>>585785
Ismail haunts me in my dreams.

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>>586409
>Ismail

>>586420
Scurry away shqip

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mfw I realize Katanga will never be released

>>586420
i live for this to happen, dawg

>>586440
It will one day, he has to justify buying a billion books about Sub-Saharan Africa.

why Albania?

>>585795
>The highest Level of autism.
>I wonder what the people who play this look like.
It's not like these are war games or other hyper-detailed, number-crunching games.

Seems interesting, particularly the French Revolution one, but I don't clearly see how the game functions. You have to post your actions ? Have any of you practiced it before ?

Growing up as a teen I did some star wars RPing. Its fun but truth be told, the kind of internet people that do this stuff are usually the worst kind.

They compensate their lack of social life and status by being majestic dicks and know-it-alls in the one arena they do rule: Internet RPing.

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>Experience the excitement of being a notable person in 1930s Albania

>>586892
ok

>>586763
>Seems interesting, particularly the French Revolution one, but I don't clearly see how the game functions. You have to post your actions ? Have any of you practiced it before ?
IIRC you send a private message to the GM of the game saying what you want to do. Every GM has their own way of doing things so you can probably just ask them.

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>>586892
>They compensate their lack of social life and status by being majestic dicks and know-it-alls in the one arena they do rule: Internet RPing.
Examples?

>Invisionfree
jesus christ that's still around?

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>>588220
>mfw I remember having an InvisionFree board back in like 2003 dedicated to Naruto

>>588413
invisionfree is babby's first forum
invisionpro is the shit though

Not really related to OP but what books would /his/ recommend for reading about the French revolution?

>>588908
François Furet.

>>587715

What I mean by this is that people who frequent those boards are the kind that will never, ever in any situation just say:

"Hmm, Ok agree to disagree, Let's just have a good time" but would rather keep arguing doing to a painstakingly, hairsplitting point about some nerdy fact which doesn't really matter. Why? To ascert that THEY are in the right and the most elite expert of *whatever topic the board caters to*.

>>589296
>Why? To ascert that THEY are in the right and the most elite expert of *whatever topic the board caters to*.
I think eRegime is immune to that though, because it's not devoted to a specific subject like Star Wars or WWII or American politics or whatever.

Syrian Civil War is not history you shit.

>>589269
anyone else?

>>590733
there is always michelet

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>Experience the excitement of being a notable person in 1930s Albania

>>587715
Go to /tg/ and look for a "that guy" thread.

>>591126
Yeah /tg/ is the place to go.

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>Experience the excitement of being a notable person in 1930s Albania.

>>586135
>>586902
>>591103
>>591506
yes we get it op was trying to be funny

>>591061
Seconded. I read Michelet for class once, he's held up surprisingly well considering he wrote over 150 years ago.

>>592704
>he's held up surprisingly well considering he wrote over 150 years ago.
I hate how people think that because a historical work is "old" it is somehow bad

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>>593163
old books from the first decades of the 20th century aren't a problem for most subjects, but books in the 19th and earlier centuries have to be treated with caution for all sorts of reasons:
* propaganda
* state censorship
* lax historiographical standards
* lack of access to foreign materials if dealing with a foreign country

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>>>/tg/44953180

I'm running this /his/ related quest on /tg/ right now if anyone is interested.

>>593493
You could post about it on eRegime.

>>585795
>I wonder what the people who play this look like.
like you

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>>593484
Those are some silly reasons to discount good histories.

>Propaganda
Yes, this is a thing, but it's still a thing today. Do you think books written in the USSR were impartial? Or in a great many countries today? I don't think books by Iranians, published in Iran, on their history are going to be entirely objective.

>State censorship
See above.

>Lax historiographical standards
This is legit but you can generally tell if someone can be relied on or not as long as you have more modern sources to consult.

>Lack of access to foreign materials
This isn't really valid. Respected historians of foreign countries almost always knew the languages of those countries, and then some more. Actually a lot of the most venerated historians of foreign societies in the 19th and 20th century actually lived in those societies and took up their culture.

>>593163
It's almost like History is a rigorous field where mutually supporting studies and criticism produce meaningful knowledge.

>>594784
Until this happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Fomenko%29

>>594819
Fomenkoism was created by a man without any sort of historical credentials, was rejected universally by the historical community, and has made no impact and formed no basis of academic history.

Your example demonstrates the exact opposite of your claim.

>>594828
This.

Unfortunately it's still pretty popular in Russia, just not among historians or scientists.

>>594773
>lax historiographical standards
>silly reason to discount

Fuck off back to literary criticism.

>>586165
same. forgot what the game was called but you could make your own city essentially and it was rather boring now looking back on it.

>>594991
Just because historians in the 18th and earlier centuries didn't footnote everything doesn't mean their writings were shit.

>>596257
>you could make your own city essentially and it was rather boring now looking back on it.
That doesn't sound boring.

Just curious, how many people from 4Chan are on eRegime?

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>>598027
quite a bit, mostly from /tg/, /int/ and /pol/. one of the GMs of the Metro 2033 game is from /int/. other users come from all over the internet.

>>585785
>Experience the excitement of being a notable person in 1930s Albania.
Wow.

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>>585785
>Albania
>excitement

>>592704
Yes, read Michelet for the French Revolution.

>>598527
why?

I'm not doubting he knew his shit but why should that be the first thing someone reads about the revolution?

>Syrian civil war
>history

>>598075
Where is that image from?

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>>599671
eRegime itself. A supermod named FSAD made it as a joke because he didn't like the default Invisionfree layout, so back in January 2014 he "gayed" the whole forum's appearance, so like new post/thread icons would be people defiantly walking out of closets and stuff. It was pretty funny.

>>598678
>forum games
lol

how do you play these?

>>602283
Read the rules for whatever game you're interested in. Each GM has their own way of doing things.

So a new game is starting up on the site, set in 1860. It's a US politics game.